🏆 IELTS General Training 8.5! 🏆

This is our student's awesome result from today! 🧡

Teacher: Anna Skopina
Time: 14 classes (about two months)
Breakdown: R9 L9 W7.5 S7.5, Overall 8.5

Anna shares the preparation strategy for this student.

To achieve such great results:

1️⃣ We worked on the format and the structure of both writing tasks. We paid attention to the differences between formal and informal letters so that a letter to a friend sounded genuinely informal and not like a job application or an e-mail to a company manager. We also analyzed the differences between types of essays, which helped the student to answer the question precisely.

2️⃣ We worked on ideas, making sure that they were well-developed and relevant to the question. Coming up with ideas was easy in this case because this student reads a lot of popular science articles and news in English, which goes to show how much IELTS is connected to the real world and how important it is to be aware of what is happening.

3️⃣ We studied phrases and sentence structures which can be used in both writing and speaking for different purposes, such as to show cause-effect connection, speculate about the future or compare and contrast. For example:
- In many countries buying an apartment is so expensive that it is not an option for the majority of people.
- If people like what they study, they are bound to make faster progress.
- Rather than writing everything you need immediately, take some time to plan, even if you are in an exam and don’t have much time.

Of course, this result was only possible because the student’s level was already C1 and because he put in the hard work. We are very proud of him! 🧡